Public Health Partners

Marty MageeNational Network/Libraries of MedicineMidContinental Region 800-338-7657

Objectives•Gain a deeper understanding of the public health workforce and their training needs

•Review PHPartnersOrganize and deliver public health resources so they are easier to find and use. Increase the visibility of the partnership with librarians and the public health workforce. Increase the information literacy of the public health workforce.

Why?

Most LHD professionals do not have formal public health training. Most LHDs are unable to provide support or incentives for current staff to obtain the formal public health training that would increase the quality of the workforce. Most LHDs cannot provide pay increases or other incentives to staff who obtain additional public health training or degrees. Institute of Medicine 2003

http://www.medlineplus.gov/

www.healthfinder.gov

Search Public Health

Search Public Health Professionals

Search Community Leaders

Office of Public Health and Science

http://www.osophs.dhhs.gov/ophs/

Best Practice Iniativehttp://www.osophs.dhhs.gov/ophs/BestPractice/

www.nutrition.gov

Combine Health Information Database

http://chid.nih.gov/

Search for Weight Control-Publications

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

http://www.ahrq.gov/

http://dirline.nlm.nih.gov/DIRLINE

Toxtown http://toxtown.nlm.nih.gov/town/main.html

Household Products Database

http://householdproducts.nlm.nih.gov/

www.phPartners.org

Health Promotion and Health Education

http://phpartners.org/hpro.html

Literature and Guidelines

http://phpartners.org/guide.html

Health Data Tools and Statistics

http://phpartners.org/health_stats.html

Two categories of data sets are commonly used•Individual service or encounter-based data

•Describes populations, rather than individual encounters

http://phpartners.org/health_stats.html

Grants and Fundinghttp://phpartners.org/grants.html

Education and Traininghttp://phpartners.org/educ.html

Legislationhttp://phpartners.org/legis.html

Conference and Meetings

http://phpartners.org/conf_mtgs.html

Finding Peoplehttp://phpartners.org/find_people.html

Discussion and E-Mail Lists

http://phpartners.org/dlists.html

Jobs and Careershttp://phpartners.org/jobs.html

Roles for Library Staff

•Train Public Health staff on health information access

•Comprehensive cross-database and Internet searching

•Provide fast, low-cost document delivery

•Set up current awareness services for individuals

•Activate online access to journals

•Via PubMed

•Collect, catalog and archive Health Department publications

Questions?

Marty Mageemmagee@unmc.edu